skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think lots of people don't really have a "side", other than the side of just not wanting to see people suffer. I don't think that closing your eyes to that is neutral. Sometimes "do nothing" is an act of evil.

In Northern Ireland and the Balkans international intervention almost certainly saved lives and helped bring about peace and relative stability. How long had they been fighting? There's probably some more examples. So I'd argue that it's not useless either.

And Jewish and Israeli (and by extension, Palestinian) history is strongly connected to the history of 19th and 20th century Europe in all sorts of ways, and I don't think you can just cleanly separate that.

Of course on a personal level I can imagine people reading the news, feeling powerless to change anything, and just not being interested. That's fine. But on a governmental/policy level, I do think we (the world) needs to stay engaged. Not just here, but also elsewhere with long-running issues. It's not our problem to solve, no, but we can facilitate and help.
I'm always amazed by the quality and craft of works produced in the periods before roughly the 1960s. Not sure what changed so drastically about society around that time to make modern times so wasteful, slow, expensive, and unambitious but if we could go back, I would
I've seen this guy by the shed, thanks. I'll ask him if he's busy this summer.
I wanted to make a different point. If for example Google or Red Hat were deeply involved within the xz project, there might have been more people reviewing the code. The evil changes to xz were easy to overlook, but not impossible to notice.

Especially the added "accidential" semicolon made me think about probabilities. I think in a code review I would notice that with a probability of 10-20%. So if 10 people would've looked at it, there might have been quite a low chance to get away with it.

Having some high profile companies involved into an open source project the risk score would drop in my opinion, which would highlight the projects that are completely community maintained, and might be more susceptible.

Having such a list might be a security threat by itself though, because attackers would focus on the "low risk" projects first.
> The only systems that aren't racist are those that strive to be colorblind (in the sense that we're colorblind to eye or hair color).

Eye/hair color being a distinguishing feature is mostly a white people thing in its own right...
> it's a science you probably weren't exposed to in school

Interesting take, why do you think it is you likely weren’t expose to DEI in school?

While I’m thinking about it, didn’t we just used to call it “affirmative action”?
Beyond the culture war, I find DEI uncomfortable. I’m not the most articulate and don’t keep up with modern trends. Ask me about computers or tell me to code, but writing about social subjects when I barely leave my room and even then only to exercise feels like a nightmare. I’ve been asked to optionally write something similar during university applications in the past but along with ethnicity and other private information, N/A is the best I can think of.
If students uttered a DEI statement every morning in their homeroom classes over the Pledge of Allegiance to a flag, we'd all be in a much better place culturally.
I know about FATCA, but just to clarify, it's not just Swiss banks. A lot of European banks do so too, unless they're one of the super major ones.
That was nearly 5 months ago. Did Israel take any of those measures? Or did you stop following the news since?

Again. Reality check.
Just because you drink deep of the Kool Aid doesn't mean the world matches the visions you have as a result.

The first statement is so vague as to be meaningless. What does it mean to promote freedom and democracy? How many milliDems are contained in each bomb you drop on Serbia, Iraq, or Gaza?

Fended off Communism? Last I checked, China was a superpower, and the fact that the western media are heating up their hysterics means they are doing quite well.

Stalinism was fended off by Stalin kicking the bucket. For most of his life he was a US ally.
In the UK, if you venture from a side street to a main road, the chances are that there won't be a sign to tell you what that main road is, unless you venture down that main road to where it meets another main road. This can be a considerable distance.

I am all for keeping in the apostrophes as they are mini 'flashcards' to help the youngsters learn the value of punctuation. I also think that it is out of respect for residents, if I was on 'St. Mary's Road' and I had to write 'st marys rd' then I would worry that people outside Yorkshire might think I was illiterate.

One day a UK county will do an excellent job of signs, so people always know where they are without SatNav. Remember that many signs were removed just in case the Germans arrived, and we couldn't have them finding their way around, could we?

North Yorkshire council could trial some best practice signage that involves having actual signs instead of making the punctuation vanish. They could get an unexpected tourism boost from doing so with mildly fewer cars on the roads.
Do you have a link to an article in Arabic where they incite violence?

I've spent a while translating various articles on the Al Jazeera Arabic site from Arabic to English with mistral-7b. Everything seemed to be very fact based, and was emphasising things like civilian deaths, which aligns to what I'd consider public interest.

The Arabic text does consistently use the term شهيد (martyr) to describe Palestinian civilian casualties in Gaza, which is the closest thing to biased language I found across multiple articles about Israel and Palestine - but I think that is normal in Arabic for describing even non-combatant casualties and not necessarily reflective of bias given Arabic conventions.
Oh man, you’re not kidding, watching those gifs made me reflexively long for the “reduce motion” settings toggle.
That's great, but I think that's not enough. This would need to extend to crates.io, I'm sure there are some packages, that are very commonly used and not part of rust-lang.
> That was nearly 5 months ago

That was the ICJ’s last order to Israel. You claimed the ICJ called Israel’s war genocide. That is false.
I know the whole radical free speech theory where everyone should be able to see all discourses and make their own informed opinion. The thing is, the facts are that propaganda and fake news are super effective. Probably a failure of western democracies to develop critical sense of their citizens, or the lake of preparation to the quick rise of social networks. And now far right are rising in Europe too, of course driven - in part - by Russian propaganda and fake news (and funding too).

So I'm not sure what is the good solution now. I'd be happy if there were more money to fund school and lessons for children to understand how those fake news work. But this is long term. Short term I think I'm okay if we don't have RT in France.
What is talent? What should you work on?
Discussed previously:

Amazon CEO Andy jassy broke federal labor law with anti-union remarks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241774 (3 days ago, 30 comments)
That’s not really an outlier. Common for political networks, religious channels, shopping networks….

Probably more than half the channels on a typical American cable system are paying to be there. Especially the stuff in the basic tiers.
> They talk in circles and use this semantic sleight of hand to claim that qualia don't even exist and therefore require no explanation, even as they experience them at that exact moment.

Let's flip the script then: demonstrate that qualia are real if you think it's so obvious. Every thought experiment that purports to show something meaningful has been fatally flawed and ends up proving nothing. Do you not see how the position that qualia really exist is the one on shaky empirical ground and playing semantic games trying to claim that something non-demonstrable exists? It's Russell's teapot.

I literally have no reason to accept your claim that qualia are self-evident, and further, considering the remarkable success of materialist science and that the only "evidence" that qualia exist is a subjective perception from an apparatus that is known to have fatal perceptual flaws, how can you expect anyone who's given this serious thought to take you seriously?

I agree the link I gave is not the full story, I said it was the start. It establishes the foundation tackling subjective awareness first, and will be building to qualia in subsequent work. It will take a few decades to root out this mystical nonsense around consciousness, but it will happen just like elan vital before it.

Edit: to be clear, I don't think any eliminativist will seriously claim that qualia don't require any explanation. We still need to understand how the illusion works and so why we come to believe we have qualia, we just don't need to explain what qualia are because that's already done by classifying them as an illusion. It's like you're insisting that a psychologist explain what demonic possession is when we now know it's mental illness. We don't need to explain demonic possession, we need to explain mental illness. Similarly, we don't need to explain what qualia are, because they don't exist, but we do need to explain the mechanics of the brain that lead to perceptual illusions of various kinds, like the perception of subjective experience.

But, and this is the key, this will happen in the normal course of explaining how the brain works. Nothing special or extra needs to be done. The hard problem is reduced to the easy problem. The paper I linked is a starting point on that path.
Untrue

It is what it's called, here, in NZ English
Yes. Neo-Nazis serve as an obvious example. As long as you aren’t inciting imminent lawless actions you can say pretty much anything.

Or https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/us/pastors-praise-anti-ga...
Might as well go all the way and call it a “green initiative”
The countries where the US installs a puppet government. Karzai in Afghanistan. Sandu in Romania. Pashinyan in Armenia.
Sorry, that was a joke. They do have to save them somewhere and then delete them. Nature doesn’t help much. Maybe if you use enough non-ECC RAM or something.
Is this supposed to be ironic?

My point is that people clearly value things beyond the 'number that goes up', often to an even more intense degree.
Isn’t it why toml is seemingly increasingly used to replace yaml in projects?
I think this comic says it all: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuJMkjIXcAcRru9?format=jpg
It likely wasn’t General Motors you worked at… but every GM meeting must start with a safety tip - or some DEI claim.

In the engineering meetings I can tell you which one happens. And in the executive meetings that certain people can’t wait to spend 5-10 min of probably $20,000 worth of a dozen executives time with their feelings on the matter.

I fondly remember a heated discussion about chainsaw safety techniques.
Don’t Linux people realize there are a limited number of people to work on these things in their spare time for free?
It helps that the IoT things almost invariably use 2.4GHz while your data-hungry computers and phones usually use 5GHz.
It was basically the same across the Soviet Block. Used to grow in a former USSR republic and did exactly this.
> It's certainly not true for the "authorities" in question here. Meaning, they indeed aren't "authoritative", as you would have it.

Weird use of scarequotes. And yeah, no one is claiming the person who wrote the opinion is an authority. You made a generalization though, and that's what I was responding to.

> I guess, because you have so little confidence in what your peers would do if they found out?

Found out what? I don't even have confidence that most of my "peers" would think it's important to check in the first place.
Ah seems like Google finally allowed EU countries, the last time I looked (few weeks ago) they still didn't allow it.

My point still stands for Meta and Claude, as I'm talking about the hosted products and APIs. e.g. https://meta.ai and https://claude.ai
I have my theories, but it's probably best that I keep them to myself, and do my best on my projects.
> Can you openly call for the murder of <enter ethnic group> in the US under the protection of the first amendment ?

You can not. Inciting violence and calls for criminal action is a well establish limit of the First Amendment, but that is not what they are doing from what I gathered in this thread.

From the poster a few levels above:

> In the case of Israel, the Middle-Eastern unit were literally showing videos demanding further uprising against Israel across the region directly from Hamas. Also the entire point of Al Jazeera was for Qatar to provide political influence through media, not as an unbiased news agency.

Showing a video of an enemy of the country calling for genocide of that country is a newsworthy event that is part of journalistic practice. The American media showed Osama Bin Laden videos calling for the death of Americans, to report on him.

Please learn the difference of showing a video of a terrorist calling for genocide to report on him vs the news anchor/owner of that news company agreeing with that terrorist and joining that call for genocide.

America has other limits on free speech. Foreign control of media for example which I am not familiar with.
It’s the difference between doing something transcendental a small number of times and doing something amazing billions of times.
> Science is cheap.

Indeed. Sustained nuclear chain reaction was achieved in Chicago Pile-1 beneath the stands of campus football stadium at the end of 1942. That's when, scientifically, it was proven that the bomb is possible.
Better than anarchy and better Palestinians divided between Hamas and the PA is fair statement. Most Israelis don't believe any Palestinians have an interest in peace (I don't have a survey handy but I'm sure we can find one) and their actions reflect that belief. But if you can make a reasonable argument how defunding Gaza would result in peace then I'd be interesting in hearing it.

All that said, the actions taken by the Israeli right are certainly not helping the possibility of a future peace agreement, but it's not clear whether this specific action belongs in that group. One might argue that a stronger central authority in Gaza means there is a partner for a future agreement and that if Gaza can transition to be a more peaceful place (and it seemed to be heading in that direction) that would also support a future agreement.
If they open sourced it, it could easily become an actually popular, independent mobile OS to compete with Android/iOS.
This is fantastic news. Requiring faculty staff to write what is essentially a short ideological treatise to be considered for employment is more in line with something I'd expect in Mao's China.
> We can draw the line when they say one thing on English Al Jazeera and another on Arabic Al Jazeera.

The vast majority of media companies that own media in different languages are on Al Jazeera's side of the line then, including most companies that have social media channels in different languages.
in NYC, I don't worry about getting hit by a car; I worry about getting hit by bicycles/bicyclists. Most NYC streets are one-way, but I have to look both ways before stepping off of a curb.
The first link…

> According to a news bulletin on the Qatar-based channel, Mr al-Hamr said the ban was being imposed because the station was biased towards Israel and against Bahrain.

> Mr al-Hamr is said to have accused the station of being infiltrated by Zionists. "We believe (Al Jazeera) is suspect and represents the Zionist side in the region. We will not deal with this channel because we object to its coverage of current affairs. It is a channel penetrated by Zionists," he was quoted as saying.

This is perhaps making the opposite point I think you intended to.
Professional management class. Various major reforms toward “more efficient” management, first in manufacturing and such, then applied to knowledge work. Reduced specialization when it comes specifically to bureaucratic tasks in white collar work (everyone’s their own secretary, among other things, now—even doctors)

[edit] anecdotally, as related by people who watched the transition happen, one of the things this new management culture screwed up was management itself, especially lower and middle management. There used to be a gradient of how much time managers spent in meetings with peers and higher-ups, with the lowest ones doing very little of that and mostly focusing on the needs of their subordinates and keeping things running well—after the shift, all levels of management got sucked into a culture of meetings, meetings, meetings, most of them very low-value. Posturing and politics soaked down into lower levels of organizations so-afflicted to a much more extreme degree than before.
Honestly, I kind of think censorship would be a positive thing when applied to people lacking education. Where to draw the line is the issue, but at the least maybe people who didn't finish highschool or get a GED or equivalent shouldn't be exposed to conspiracy theories that they then act on.
The Nazi concept of "Cultural Bolshevism" has nothing to do with Cultural Marxism the post-war academic movement

"Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory" is about claiming that said post-war academic movement is a "Jewish plot". Yes, that's an antisemitic conspiracy theory. But stating that the academic movement exists, and discussing to what degree its ideas influenced contemporary social movements such as BLM, is not a conspiracy theory, and not per se antisemitic.

I think what is happening here, is some people are motivated to ignore the difference between what is a reasonable argument ("to what degree was a contemporary social movement influenced by a contemporary academic theory") and what is an unreasonable one ("it's a Jewish plot"), because they want to shut down that reasonable argument
All this should tell you is that inflation is vastly under-counted.
i would guess that the biggest incentive for legacy admissions is related to maximizing donations from the alumni parents but i'm just speculating
> Why? As a non-white immigrant, I’m deeply suspicious of the notion that a team with me on it is in any way different than a team without me on it based on my skin color or ethnicity.

Perhaps, but a team that would not have hired you because of your skin color or ethnicity would also be a worse team since they would not be willing or able to hire the best candidates.

> As soon as you make it acceptable to say that people are different based on group membership, they will start to notice those differences and categorize them as good and bad. DEI is based on the premise that people will recognize all of those differences as good but that’s completely delusional.

I don't think this is the right angle to look at it. Everyone has a unique combination of experiences that they bring, and what groups someone belongs to are one part of the set of experiences that make up how they experience the world. DEI programs aren't inventing this, it's just a part of the human condition that we're shaped by the unique combination of our experiences.

Focusing on specific unique aspects of individual people's backgrounds isn't the only shape DEI can take though. Done well, I think they instead look at the shape of systems and processes in place and try broadly to consider how to remove artificial barriers so that people have an equal chance to contribute.

> You are socializing people to identify other people with their group membership and they’re going to take those observations in directions you don’t expect.

I think this does happen a lot. Tokenism and only being seen as a particular part of your identity are problems. I can't speak to the experience of being a non-white immigrant, but I've had other forms of this experience. It sucks to be in a job interview where you have a great skill set that matches the role and a lot of relevant experience, but it's clear that the only thing the recruiter cares about is that you could add gender diversity to a team. It sucks to be told that I'm wrong to suggest take-home exercises in interviews are a good option because women have caregiver duties and can't make time for them when I, a woman, prefer them because I feel like they offer a better opportunity for me to think deeply about a problem.

I don't think this is a reason to ignore DEI programs though, it's simply a failure case to be aware of.
It will be everyone's problem if critical infrastructure stops working. Nobody gives a flying carp who's fault it is when erroneous air traffic control systems start killing people or bank transactions stop processing.
I heard a similar story from a professor who was doing his graduate work in mainframe days.

(Paraphrasing) 'When you learn to program on punch card with batch jobs, you get really good at writing it correct the first time. Because if you write it wrong, it's (a) overnight processing to find out, (b) another day to fix it, (c) another overnight to get the updated results.'
The US was much poorer back then. Much lower standard of living. So wages were also much lower even inflation-corrected. Also there was a war going in and people were drafted and had no choice but to work for a minimal salary. I think that explains a lot of it.
Safety devices put into tools to prevent misuse or accidents are also not that unusual. Feel free to change my example to something like "a code snippet that will use the 23andMe API to prevent users with insufficient European ancestry from registering an account" if you want a more code-specific example of reputational risk from an unfiltered AI.
Good luck. I have had my fair share of wrong diagnostics myself.

Turns out health professionals are themselves skeptics... (covid showed us already)

Well it's science and at some point, science claimed that earth was flat so...

Good luck again :D

(point is, don't trust blindly)
I think it is much easier to understand the situation if we take Netayahiu at his own words. He does not want any ceasefire, he has said so in the past, and he keeps saying that now. His actions are consistent with the fact that he does not want any ceasefire, as he tries to vandalize any prospects of a ceasefire, even a temporary one, e.g. by wowing to invade Rafah, even if there is a ceasefire.

The timing of this ban on Al Jazeera is also consistent with his behavior of trying to vandalize any ceasefire talks. Al Jazeera is a Qatar based media company, and Qatar is also the mediator in the ongoing talks. If Netanyahu wanted these talks to be successful he would not antagonize the mediator this way.

No, the Israeli government does not want a ceasefire, neither a permanent one, nor a temporary one. What they want is to make it look like they are making an effort, but only enough to improve the optics. There may be a faction inside the military which actually wants a ceasefire, so perhaps—and hopefully—a ceasefire can be negotiated despite vandalism attempts by the Israeli government, but I’m not hopeful.

In the meantime, I do take Netanyahu at his words, that he does not want a ceasefire, and he wants in invade Rafah, to continue the genocide, and to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians.